Fanspeak: NHL

While the sport of Hockey is a fun sport to watch, it can also be a grueling sport to play. If you want to get good at it, like any sport you need to practice until you have the skills that are competitive enough to make a difference for your team. Therefore, national leagues only … More »

By Alan Zlotorzynski: The Washington Capitals will face the Florida Panthers in Florida tonight (7:30 p.m.) for the first half of back-to-backs. The Capitals have compiled a 23-8-1 record against Florida in the last 32 matchups and have gone 10-5-1 in their last 16 road games vs. Florida. Washington is 3-0-0 this season against the … More »

By Alan Zlotorzynski: Despite overcoming another two-goal deficit on the road and winning a game they absolutely had to have on Tuesday night in Raleigh North Carolina vs. the Hurricanes, the surging Washington Capitals must be sellers by the time the trade deadline passes today in the NHL. Capitals General Manager George McPhee is not … More »

By Alan Zlotorzynski: You can use whatever play on words you want with Eric Fehr’s last name, the Caps hero from last night’s 4-3 thrilling come from behind overtime win vs. the Boston Bruins. But this writer is Fehrly certain this was the biggest victory of the season for the Washington Capitals Teams do not … More »

By Alan Zlotorzynski: As if a 48-game schedule wasn’t incentive enough to get off to a fast start and play consistent hockey this season, the calendar has now reached March—- and It doesn’t matter if it’s a lockout shortened season or not,  time is now of utmost importance to the suddenly surging but hardly moving … More »

As Super Bowl Week 2013 gets underway today and the story lines begin to unfold, one of the biggest and most ironic of them is whether or not former Ravens owner Art Modell is selected next Saturday to be enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame later this summer. As the final seconds ran off the … More »

The Washington Capitals are hoping that they will have something in common with the late great comedian Jack Benny this upcoming season. That something is the number 39. Benny portrayed character roles as a miser, and playing the violin badly. In character, he would be 39 years of age, regardless of his actual age at … More »

How much longer til these nets will be filled with players or pucks?  More NHL talks this week….is it more of the same or will we actually see progress this time? They’ve already lost 720 million in revenue and that’s not even counting the cancellation of the Winter Classic!  How much more are they going … More »

Looks like a decision on the Winter Classic will come on Friday. Will they or won’t they have it?  I think its a huge mistake to cancel this event and all the events tied to it.   Think of all the ripple effects that will cause.  But you do need to give people notice. So … More »

So how close (or far) is the NHL and NHLPA apart?  When will there be a season?  Any predictions?